Love is Like a Philosophy of Marmot

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Book Title
: Marmut Merah Jambu
Book Genre

Nonfiction-Comedy
Author

Raditya Dika
Publisher

Bukune
Date of Publication

: Jakarta, June 1, 2010

Thick Book

: 222 pages, 13 x 20 cml;

Book Price

: Rp.39.000

Raditya Dika was born in Jakarta December 28, 1984. He was a comika (stand up comedy)
and writer who has been famous for books - themed comedy, books previous is Kambing Jantan,
Cinta Brontosaurus, Radikus Makankaskus, and Babi Ngesot. Radit present the book fifth
entitled "Marmut Merah Jambu books have been filmed tells about how human courtship, about
human love, about the writers who are in love, how to fall in love with quietly, like the people
through cyberspace or through chatting, hard finish with a girl, to be estimated with a girl. In this
novel uncharacteristic Radit comedy tells the story of which is usually told in the earlier books
Unlike the previous books in the book "Marmut Merah Jambu" Radit are more focused on
communicating about love but mixed elements comedi. But in this book Radit also slipped some
family story. The book as a whole is quite interesting, especially the author tells about love
secretly describing how someone loves someone but afraid to express, because it must have been
felt by almost everyone.
The novel is written with trying to understand what love to introspect themselves based on
personal experience over the years. And reached the last page he wrote, he still does not
understand what love is the same when he started on the first page of this book.
Dika feel like a marmot pink continue - constantly falling in love, jumping from one
relationship (correlation) to the relationship the other, trying to keep running in the wheel called

love, as advanced, but not ... because it is actually going nowhere , As marmot who do not know
when to stop running on a spinning wheel. That every time he looked at her always thought "is it
time to quit?"
This novel has a cover design that attracts attention, because it looks cute with Raditya Dika
photo that resembled a marmot plus designs unique ornaments. The language used is also very
lightweight because it uses everyday language of teenagers. Lots of interesting things about the
phenomenon of life teenager who wrote the novel also makes it more alive when read by
teenagers.
The novel is pretty thick for a novel type of comedy. In some parts of this novel bit boring. If
the reading is a woman, it might be a bit amused because the chapter "Balada Sunatan Edgar"
contents using very vulgar language. This novel when read by adults may be boring, because it
smelled teenagers.
This novel is very interesting because various non-fiction comedy, easy to understand,
because it tells the personal experience of the author. However, there are some words that really
do not deserve to be read, especially by children who are still minors because the word is vulgar.
Besides, the whole novel is very suitable to fill spare time while entertaining themselves.